Dr. Chris Kollas
PostDoc
Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Germany
Biography
Chris Kollas studied Geography and Computer Science at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentine). In 2007 he graduated writing the thesis about climate change adaptation of German forests at PIK (Magister Artium degree in Geography and Computer Science). For his doctoral studies he moved to Basel (Switzerland), where he worked on the physiological explanation of broadleaf tree limits and received his Ph.D. in Biology in 2012. The following two years Chris worked at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) on a inter-comparison of crop models and on microclimate. In 2015 he returned to PIK, where he works on many forest related studies, e.g. the impacts of pathogens in forestry, the isotopic signature of drought stress and Ecosystem Service trade-offs.
Research Interest
Impact of Climate Change on forests and forestry Ecophysiological modelling Tree physiology (adaptation, mortality, allocation, recruitment) Biogeography of Phanerophytes Microclimatology
Publications
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Petra Lasch-Born, Felicitas Suckow, Martin Gutsch, Ylva Hauf, Peter Hoffmann, Chris Kollas, Christopher P.O. Reyer: Fire, late frost, nun moth and drought risks in Germany’s forests under climate change. 2016: Meteorologische Zeitschrift DOI: 10.1127/metz/2016/0767
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Xiaogang Y, Kersebaum KC, Kollas C, Armas-Herrera CM, Baby S, Beaudoin N, Bindi M, Charfeddine M, Conradt T, de Cortazar-Atauri IG, Ewert F, Ferrise R, Hoffmann H, Lana M, Launay M, Manderscheid R, Manevski K, Mary B, Mirschel W, Moriondo M, Müller C, Nendel C, Öztürk I, Palosuo T, Ripoche-Wachte D, Rötter RP, Ruget F, Sharif B, Ventrella D, Weigel HJ, Olesen JE: Multi-model uncertainty analysis in predicting grain N for crop rotations in Europe. 2017: European Journal of Agronomy, 84, 152-165
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Xiaogang Yin, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Chris Kollas, Kiril Manevski, Sanmohan Baby, Nicolas Beaudoin, Isik Ozturk, Thomas Gaiser, Lianhai Wu, Munir Hoffmann, Monia Charfeddine, Tobias Conradt, Julie Constantin, Frank Ewert, Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar-Atauri, Luisa Giglio, Petr Hlavinka, Holger Hoffmann, Marie Launay, Gaëtan Louarn, Remy Manderscheid, Bruno Mary, Wilfried Mirschel, Claas Nendel, Andreas Pacholski, Taru Palosuo, Dominique Ripoche-Wachter, Reimund P. Rötter, Françoise Ruget, Behzad Sharif, Mirek Trnka, Domenico Ventrella, Hans-Joachim Weigel, Jorgen E. Olesen: Performance of process-based models for simulation of grain N in crop rotations across Europe. Agricultural Systems.
